[Lustre-discuss] mkfs.lustre fails (Cannot allocate memory)
Johann Lombardi
johann at sun.com
Wed Mar 10 01:17:35 PST 2010
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:33:04AM -0800, syed haider wrote:
> mkfs.lustre: Unable to mount /dev/cciss/c0d1: Cannot allocate memory
> mkfs.lustre FATAL: failed to write local files
> mkfs.lustre: exiting with 12 (Cannot allocate memory)
This is bug 17490 which has been fixed in 1.6.7 & 1.8.0.
> I saw some discussion about this same problem and it was suggested to
> modify the ldiskfs code.*I can't go with 1.8.2 or CentOS5.4. Can anyone
> help with this?
You can apply the patch to 1.6.6 (only the ldiskfs rpm needs to be recompiled)
or just upgrade to 1.6.7.2.
Johann
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